Join Emily as she talks with Dr. Junzuo Zhang, who leads the China-UK Collaboration on International Forest Investment and Trade (InFIT) Programme, based in Beijing. Together they discuss Junzuo’s early work researching the role of gender in sustainable development, the evolving role of women in policy creation and research and the importance and the need for women to be confident, to empower their engagement and drive this agenda forward. Junzuo graduated with a Phd in Geography from SOAS in London, having previously studied agricultural and rural development at the School of Social Studies at the Hague. She currently leads the China-UK Collaboration on International Forest Investment and Trade (InFIT) Programme, which aims to reduce impacts of China's international trade in timber products and other commodities grown on forest land. Prior to this she served as the Community Development Coordinator for GIZ’s EU-China Natural Forest Management Project and worked closely with partners in 58 villages and 6 counties in Sichuan, Hunan and Hainan Provinces, South China. Here, shemanaged the implementation of various pilot and demonstration projects that provided models for community based alternative livelihoods.